On 10/17/2010 1:37 AM, Baruch Zilbershatz wrote:
> The DL guys that built that gizmo had it clamped with copper bars and screws
> both sides to a copper heat sink .looks great.
> One guy made his own Al heatsink from folded Al strips and on top of it had a
> copper heat spreader.
I hope you mean "on top of it" as meaning "in addition to". Copper, the
better heat transfer material goes *under* the finned aluminum heat sink.
Putting the Aluminum first is like installing a resistor as it would
limit the ability to transfer heat.
Actually this is an ideal place for water cooling and it doesn't take
much. In addition you can even use chilled water.
The heat sink is at ground potential so the problems associated with
water cooled vacuum tubes running high voltage are not encountered.
The best heatsink compound goes between the transistor and copper heat
sink. Using an all copper heat sink makes more sense than using a
sandwich of copper and then finned aluminum except to save money and
when you get into a project with expensive transistors, the cooling
system is certainly not a place to try to save money. It's a place to
save expensive transistors. Of course if copper is difficult to obtain
in the required dimensions I can understand using a finned aluminum heat
sink over the copper. This might even be a good place to use the
multiple "heat pipes" in an exotic configuration.
73
Roger (K8RI)
> Baruch Zilbershatz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Paul Decker
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:20 AM
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] New 2 PA design
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> Hi Dan,
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> You are right, heat and control are the primary issues to solve, and they can
> be solved in a solid state design just as they are in a tube design.
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> When the QEX article came out, I contacted JA1DJW about reproducing his
> article. He was very kind and sent me many emails with details, pictures
> and some of the critical parts for the amp. I think there are two
> fundamental reasons the 2.5k isn't rated for full power output in continuous
> mode.
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> The first reason is the power supply isn't rated for continuous duty and is
> maybe a bit under sized for the application. A secondary reason would be
> the heat issue. Nobuik sent me a heat spreader but I opted not to use it
> since the heat spreader is about 3.5" x 3.5" x 3/8" copper. I opted to use
> a 12 " x 8" x 1/2" heat spreader with "copper fins" attached and
> replicated his machine work layout onto it. Efficiency is more along the
> order of 60% at the worst, usually better though.
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> Paul, kg7hf
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> From: Dan Levin<dan@andlev.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] New 2 PA design
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> The big issue with parts like the ARF-1500 is managing the heat. For
> high duty cycle use, like contesting or RTTY (or worse yet, contest
> RTTY :-) ), you are dealing with dissipating something like 1500 watts
> of heat (assuming 50% efficiency running class AB) being generated in
> an area about one inch by three inches.
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